[Endorsement on reverse/cover of letter:] [undecipherable: probable reading: Confidential] [undecipherable] [undecipherable signature] New York, Jan^y 21^st 1794 Sir, [undecipherable] at this place an [undecipherable] communicated [undecipherable] by Gen. [undecipherable] and the [undecipherable] of Indians at [undecipherable] and William [undecipherable] Captain [undecipherable] is having [undecipherable] in treating [undecipherable]. The [undecipherable] was discussed but Gen. [undecipherable] in coming, reporting was [undecipherable] and that [undecipherable] the actual [undecipherable] an [undecipherable] time when the Indians [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Capt. [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] applying to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] signed and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to comply with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] any further [undecipherable] — The Indians in consequence of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at Presque Isle begin to [undecipherable] themselves from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] send dispatches to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the U. S. had not been [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable signature]